Guzel Iahina, „Copiii de pe Volga” - „Dus-întors”, rute ale personajului în spațiul literar
Guzel Iahina’s “My Children” – The Back and Forth Voyage of the Character in the Literary Space

Summary/Abstract: Jakob Ivanovici Bach, the main character of the novel “My Children” by Guzel Iahina, impresses the reader by the dominant back and forth journeys made in the evolution of the action. Gradually, the novel combines representations of concrete geographic realities with spaces situated under the grand impact of imaginary. It passes from the factual, olfactory, auditory or visual reality to an imaginary geography reflected on a troubled historical period that is the beginning of bolshevism. Bach, a German teacher in Gnadental, a colony on the bank of the river Volga, helped by a remarkable emotional trait of his nature, lives in a certain special way his reference to space. Tormented by the desire to have his own space, an absolute refuge, far away from any external threat, he is forced to spend most of his life on back and forth journeys in order to survive. The space structures of the novel can be perceived in their multidimensional aspect through those departures and coming-backs materialized in: routine travel, travel of adjustment to a fairy tale realm, travel of returning to the native space, of acceptance of an unknown space, travel to discover the space metamorphosis or an uncompleted travel.

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